[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 63 (Monday, April 3, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16579-16580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-3171]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics; Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Standards and Security (SSS).
    Time and Date: April 4, 2006 9 a.m.-5 p.m., April 5, 2006 9 
a.m.-5 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Room 505A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee's agenda for the morning of April 4 
will include a briefing on the newly issued HIPAA Enforcement Final 
rule and an update from the Designated Standards Maintenance 
Organizations (DMSOs) on the status of version 5010 of the American 
Standards Committee (ASC) X12837 Health Care Service: Data Reporting 
Guide. The morning will conclude with a panel discussion of issues 
associated with the implementation of the National Provider 
Identifier (NPI). The afternoon will include a second NPI panel 
discussion followed by Subcommittee discussion. The morning of April 
5 will be devoted to development of recommendations for Consolidated 
Health Informatics Initiative (CHI) standards on multimedia; HIPAA 
Return on Investment (ROI) and lessons learned; and matching 
patients to their records. The hearings will adjourn following 
Subcommittee discussion.
    Contact Person For More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
Committee members may be obtained from Maria Friedman, Health 
Insurance Specialist, Security and Standards Group, Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, MS: C5-24-04, 7500 Security 
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850, telephone: 410-786-6333 or 
Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center 
for Health Statistics, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, 
Room 1100, Presidential Building, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville,

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Maryland 20782, telephone: (301) 458-4245. Information also is 
available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS Web site http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda for the meeting will be posted 
when available. Should you require reasonable accommodation, please 
contact the CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-
4EEO (4336) as soon as possible.

    Dated: March 21, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-3171 Filed 3-31-06; 8:45am]
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